The steel skeletons in our reinforced concrete buildings share a fatal flaw: corrosion. As water seeps in through microcracks in the concrete, the hidden metal swells, gradually eating bridges and ...

It is one of a number of remarkable structures in reinforced concrete that are increasingly recognised as key industrial heritage monuments in Malta Over the last two centuries, concrete has evolved ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Retrofitting. Seismic designs. Existing structures. Lateral force resisting systems. Moment strengths. Anchor beams. Multistory structures. Energy dissipation ...